Tom & Ed
Thanks for your input.
Glen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas E. Bryant" <saltracer@awwwsome.com>
To: "Ed Van Scoy" <edvs@uswest.net>
Cc: "LAND-SPEED" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 4:27 PM
Subject: 200 MPH Club
> Ed,
>
> It seems that you have some good authority on the formation and the
> early rules of the club. I had said that it was formed in 1951 because
> that is what it says under the pictures on page 9 of the 1959 Program. I
> found that the 1962 Program has a short article on the Club. It states
> the Club was formed in 1953 with a total membership of five. At the
> start of the 1962 season there were 53 members. The requirement to enter
> the Club at that time was to make two runs in opposite directions
> averaging over 200 MPH. One catch to this rule was that in order to get
> a 2-way run at a Bonneville National's Meet was to qualify over a record
> speed.
>
> In the 1972 Program, Mark Dees, president of the Club 1971-73, wrote an
> article about the "2" Club. In the article he mentions "Save the Salt"
> efforts and appearing at the Governor's Committee on Historic Sites
> Meeting and showing slides, taken by Dean Moon, to illustrate his points
> about the deterioration of the Salt Flats. There is also a section of
> the By-Laws of the Club which spells out the requirements to enter.
>
> "2. Membership:
>
> Any driver or rider of a wheel-driven automobile or motorcycle who is
> timed at a two-way average speed of 200 mph or more over a straightaway
> course not less than one-mile in length, to set a new record recognized
> by the SCTA, Bonneville Nationals, Inc., AMA, or any timing association
> affiliated with the FIA or FIM shall automatically become a member.
> Persons establishing outstanding records in other types of land vehicles
> may be elected to honorary membership.
>
> If the organization sanctioning such record shall require that the
> vehicle be driven by the same driver or rider who originally qualified
> it, compliance with such requirement shall be a condition of admission
> to membership."
>
> I, too, would like to see someone or a group of people that were
> involved back then put into writing the early history and continue on to
> the present. I'm sure that there are by-laws, minutes, etc. that much of
> this info could be drawn from. Wally Parks, Alex Xydias and Bill Burke
> come to mind as possible authors.
>
> At any rate, thanks for the historical info that you provided.
>
> Tom, Redding CA - #216 D/GCC
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